<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353487" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Survivors And Inheritors</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Caves, like palaces, <br>hotels, churches <br>(and shoes) , <br>outlive their tenants.<br>Tigers came and filled the caves<br>with snarling and roaring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, <br>more than a hundred Japanese soldiers retreated here.<br>Most fell on their swords in accordance with custom, <br>grasping the hilts with both hands, <br>pulling and falling into an exploding sphere of pain.<br>The rest cut open their stomachs <br>and died more slowly, but just as surely.<br>Their flesh was eaten by tigers and dogs, <br>their bones mingled with those of prehistoric men<br>and the residue of earlier tiger feasts.<br>Thirty five years later, Buddhist monks came, <br>Japanese, Thai and Chinese, <br>and chanted mantras<br>for the salvation and reorientation <br>of the Japanese spirits, <br>who returned to Japan.<br>The earthly elements they left behind<br>were collected by the Japanese Embassy<br>(who also took the swords) . <br>The caves were cleaned. <br>The tigers stopped coming. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like deserted Indian Temples, <br>the caves were left to monkeys, <br>who jabbered and squabbled<br>with the sounds of enraged chickens.<br>Dun, as a boy, came here with his friends, <br>when they were bored with fishing, <br>to fight the monkeys for their territory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the worn limestone caverns<br>are empty, silent, echoing, <br>teeming with images in parallel worlds, <br>waiting for the next arrivals.<br>Tonight one old monkey<br>sits motionless.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brian+Taylor">Brian Taylor</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353487" data-title="Survivors And Inheritors de Brian Taylor" data-description="Caves, like palaces, hotels, churches (and shoes) , outlive their tenants. Tigers came and filled the caves with snarling and roaring. After the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, more than a hundred Japanese soldiers retreated here. Most fell on..."></div> </div> </div>

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